Why is this? Innovation, mechanization, digitization, etc.
But could one of the culprits be government-mandated minimum wage increases?
From Natalie Kitroeff of Bloomberg Businessweek:
Young People Have Fewer Jobs Than a Generation Ago
Young people of all races and ethnicities were not employed in 2013 at the rate they were a generation ago, according to...
I posted about this when it first came out: Dartmouth Frat Boy Confessions (Warning: Graphic).
Now Dartmouth, The Dartmouth (student newspaper), and Dartmouth students are coming out against Andrew Lohse and his so-called confessions, saying they are untrue. Either Lohse pulled a fast one to make a quick buck, or Dartmouth has...
Will this spread across the nation?
From Breitbart Sports:
LOUISVILLE CHEERLEADERS TO BE DRUG TESTED LIKE ATHLETES
Louisville’s cheerleaders will now be drug tested like athletes.
After a cheerleader died of what is believed to be a heroin overdose, the university announced that its “spirit teams will have to undergo the same drug testing” as...
Come November, we can only hope Reid will lose his position as Senate Majority Leader. As of now, he’s lost his name on Southern Utah University’s Outdoor Engagement Center building.
Fox News reports:
Reid’s name removed from center at Utah university from which he graduated
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s name has been removed...
Pretty soon colleges will have to sell their mega-million stadiums and play on patches of grass.
From Brad Tuttle of Time Magazine:
Why Students Aren’t Going to College Football Games
With college football ticket prices soaring and expanded conferences leading to less exciting matchups, fans—students in particular—are more likely to watch games from home.
There’s...
Dear Readers, this one is from yours truly at The Cornell Review, along with fellow staff writer Andres Sellitto.
Students for Justice in Palestine at Cornell Stage Anti-Israel Protest
Written by Casey Breznick and Andres Sellitto.
A ragtag group of students, faculty, and city locals associated with Cornell’s chapter of Students of Justice in...
A guest article submission to the Cornell Daily Sun on Aug. 28 from “Rocky M.” was, to say the least, quite disgusting and very bizarre. Basically, it tells the tale of two Cornellian twin brothers who were with a woman at the same time. Technically, the brothers weren’t doing anything to...
The last thing a college campus needs is another infectious disease passing among students.
US colleges screen some students for Ebola
College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try to insulate their campuses from the worst Ebola...
Well, if the reviews indicate things this teacher actually did in class, then her firing seems justified.
From Amy Biolchini of MLive:
Ann Arbor teacher files lawsuit over removal from classroom based on bad online reviews
An Ann Arbor high school teacher accused of arranging her class seating chart by race, calling students names...
Probably the last person you thought: Hillary Clinton.
From Nick Gillepsie writing for the Daily Beast:
Hillary’s Got a Millennial Problem
The former Secretary of State looks like she’ll clobber a Republican like Rand Paul in 2016—but only if she doesn’t alienate the young.
Sure, projecting a winner in a presidential election a couple of...
This is strange, considering the poor state the country’s public education system is in as reflected in international benchmark exam scores.
From Gallup:
Americans’ Satisfaction With Education System Increases
As students return to school in the U.S., 48% of Americans are “completely” or “somewhat satisfied” with the quality of k...
So, should these innovative, entrepreneurial college students not have invented this nail polish, which turns a different color when exposed to date-rape drugs?
Katherine Timpf of he National Review has the story:
Feminists Say Roofie-Detecting Nail Polish Is Actually Also Rape Culture
A group of college students have invented a nail polish that changes...
Most college students and professors believe they are helping alleviate income inequality when in fact they are exacerbating it.
With the story is Elizabeth MacDonald of Fox Business:
Colleges Worsen Income Inequality
Tuition gouging for degrees that are useless in the real world and a failed business model have put U.S. colleges front and...
From Jordan Schachtel of Breitbart:
PRINCETON PROFESSOR ROBERT P. GEORGE AUTHORS BIPARTISAN PETITION CALLING UPON OBAMA ADMIN TO DESTROY ISLAMIC STATE
Princeton University Professor and world-renowned intellectual Dr. Robert P. George authored a petition calling upon President Obama and Congress to not stop, not contain, but destroy the Islamic State terror group. Dr....
Anthea Butler, a religion professor at the University of Pennsylvania, sent out a tweet that was an attempt to insert racial animus into the VMAs (Video Music Awards) but ended up not really making any sense. She later deleted it, citing she didn’t “have time for BS.”
Oliver Darcy of The Blaze...
Well, for the first two years of high school I woke up at 5:45 am, and after I could drive I woke up at 6:30 am. That seems kind of early, but if you go to sleep early enough it is manageable.
Anyways, Michelle Healy of USA Today has the story:
Docs urge...
Big changes are in store for college football this year, after university presidents voted two years ago to implement the changes this year.
Read Antonya English’s explanation if you’re a bit confused:
Explaining the new college football playoff system
Are you ready for the playoffs? If you’re like most college football fans, you’ve been...
Actually, what Professor Michael Munger means is that liberal universities and professors are inadequately preparing liberal students for the realities of life after college by intellectually coddling them.
Maggie Lit of Campus Reform has the story:
Duke professor: College leaves liberal students ill-equipped
A Duke professor says colleges are so left-wing that they are...
Andrew Lohse is a whistleblower like few others, for he isn’t divulging information about illicit corporate or government activities. Instead, he’s telling the world something it already knows, but in a fashion that still shocks us.
Of the New York Daily News, Sherrely Connelly reports:
Dartmouth fraternity pledges ordered to swim through feces...
Jill Tucker of SFGate reports:
S.F. teachers miss more school than students on average
Education officials like to say that kids can’t learn if they aren’t in school.
But what if teachers aren’t in school?
While absenteeism is usually considered a student matter, in San Francisco – and many other districts – the average teacher...
Maria Cramer of the Boston Globe reports:
Teacher convicted of child porn charges can keep pension
The state’s highest court has decided that a former high school teacher who was convicted of child pornography charges can keep his retirement benefits.
In a ruling Monday, the Supreme Judicial Court said that Ronald T. Garney, a...
What is the average family’s biggest lifelong expense? Taxes. Then, your home/mortgage. Then, apparently, your children.
Cost to raise today’s child nears $250G, federal report finds
A child born in 2013 will cost a middle-income American family an average of $245,340 until he or she becomes an adult, with families living in the...
